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Monday, March 8, 2010

Achilles interrupted him. "I should be a mean coward," he cried,"were I to give in to you in all things. Order other peopleabout, not me, for I shall obey no longer. Furthermore I say--andlay my saying to your heart--I shall fight neither you nor anyman about this girl, for those that take were those also thatgave. But of all else that is at my ship you shall carry awaynothing by force. Try, that others may see; if you do, my spearshall be reddened with your blood."

When they had quarrelled thus angrily, they rose, and broke upthe assembly at the ships of the Achaeans. The son of Peleus wentback to his tents and ships with the son of Menoetius and hiscompany, while Agamemnon drew a vessel into the water and chose acrew of twenty oarsmen. He escorted Chryseis on board and sentmoreover a hecatomb for the god. And Ulysses went as captain.

Continued next week. Tomorrow's installment from Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

More About This Book

From the earliest days of Ancient Greece, the author(s) of this poem were contemporaries of the writers of the Bible's Old Testament.

Summary of First Book: The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles--Achilles withdraws from the war, and sends his mother Thetis to ask Jove to help the Trojans--Scene between Jove and Juno on Olympus.